An orphan claim is a live public claim that no named person is responsible for reviewing, either because no owner was ever assigned or because the person who wrote it changed roles or left.

This is one entry in The Knowledge Company claim register: a statement the company publishes, the source it was checked against, the date of the last check and the date that check expires. When the stale-after date passes, the status degrades on its own until a person re-verifies the claim. Nothing is marked verified automatically.